A witty saying proves nothing -- Voltaire

The programmer must seek both perfection of part and adequacy of collection. -- Alan J. Perlis

Another feature about this guy is his low threshold of boredom. He'll pick up on a task and work frantically at it, accomplishing wonders in a short time and then get bored and drop it before its properly finished. He'll do nothing but strum his guitar and lie around in bed for several days after. Thats also part of the pattern too; periods of frenetic activity followed by periods of melancholia, withdrawal and inactivity. This is a bipolar personality. -- The bipolar lisp programmer

Being a programmer is the same way. The only way to be a good programmer is to write code. When you realize you haven't been writing much code lately, and it seems like all you do is brag about code you wrote in the past, and people start looking at you funny while you're shooting your mouth off, realize it's because they know. They might not even know they know, but they know. So, yes, doing what you love brings success, and by all means, throw yourself a nice big party, buy yourself a nice car, soak up the adulation of an adoring crowd. Then shut the fuck up and get back to work. -- Sincerity Theory

All creativity is an extended form of a joke. -- Alan Kay

Only make new mistakes. -- Phil Dourado

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie

It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot